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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Israel Encourages Palestinian Rocket Attacks

When a people that have been dispossessed of their land, livelihoods
and homes, periodically murdered and regularly terrorized, take action
to resist and defend themselves, they are guilty of nothing but standing
up for their human rights and their rights under international law.

BBC Arabic Photo Journalist, Jihad Masharawi, weeps as he holds his baby son who was murdered by the Israeli army today

Yesterday, Wed. 14th Nov. 2012 Israel launched the latest in a long line
of "Operations" that stretch back over 60 years aimed at terrorizing
the people of Palestine. By naming the attack 'Operation 'pillar of
cloud" the Israeli military was unambiguous about its intent: to blow up
as much of Gaza and as many Palestinians as they saw fit.

Why do Palestinians fire rockets into Israel? The vast majority of them,
and I mean the VAST majority either miss their target or make a small
hole in the ground far from their intended target. The rocket attacks
appear to serve only as justification for the Israeli military to attack
Gaza and murder Palestinians. So what's the point?

The point is that the rocket attacks are the Palestinians ONLY way of
protesting against the 60 year long occupation of their land responding
to unprovoked Israeli attacks against and murder of Palestinian
civilians. Think about that. The Palestinians have no option to appeal
to the international community because no one listens. They have zero
chance of the Western media applying pressure to halt Israeli aggression
and redress Palestinian grievances because the Western media is
unashamedly biased towards Israel.

The Palestinians have two choices: they can sit quietly by and allow the
IDF to arbitrarily and summarily murder them, or they can fire
primitive rockets at the closest targets inside Israel and hope that
they make the Israeli government think twice. But even here the
Palestinians have a problem: the Israeli government welcomes the firing of Palestinian rockets into Israel, and they periodically provoke it.

'Nonsense!' I hear you say. 'Why would the Israeli
government want to provoke Palestinians to attack Israelis?' The state
of Israel was born out of and has prospered ever since on the basis of
there being a threat to its existence. Israel wields massively
disproportionate power around the world, especially in Western nations
and the USA, largely because it is surrounded by Arab nations that are
the target of the "war on terror" being waged by the American Empire and
its pusillanimous partners.

The war on terror is, of course, a cover for a war of acquisition of the
natural resources of many of those Arab nations, and Israel has always
acted as the Western nations' garrison in the Middle East, tasked with
the job of ensuring that the Middle East remains unstable and therefore
controllable. In fact, the establishment of the state of Israel on land
belonging to Middle Eastern Arabs and the long-standing conflict that
has resulted, has been the method via which Western governments have
ensured the instability of the Middle East. It is much easier to sell
Western military intervention and political meddling in a region of the
world that is "in conflict" than if it were peaceful and stable. The fact that Western nations themselves are the cause of the 'conflict' is apparently of little importance or relevance.

The fact of the matter is that, if the state of Israel had been
established in Kenya or Madagascar for example, it would undoubtedly
have evolved to play a role in world politics commensurate with its
population i.e. a largely insignificant one. But today, Israeli
governments via their infamous Israel lobby in Washington, are able to
manipulate large sections of all three of the United States Executive
branches. Read Mearsheimer and Walt's 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy' for the hard facts on this.

Over the past few days, the massively pro-Israel Western media and
politicians have been subtly and not-so-subtly blaming the Palestinians
for provoking the latest violence during which 17 Palestinians (and
counting) have been killed and over 100 injured. Among the Palestinian
dead were an 11-month-old baby and a woman pregnant with twins. This is
compared to 3 Israelis killed and 7 injured. For example, UK Foreign
Secretary William Hague stated:

"Hamas bears principal responsibility for the current crisis. I utterly
condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and
other armed groups. This creates an intolerable situation for Israeli
civilians in southern Israel, who have the right to live without fear of
attack from Gaza,"

Apparently the intolerable situation for the 1.5 million Palestinians in
Gaza who are regularly murdered by the Israeli military and confined to
a open air prison pales in comparison to the plight of the 24,000
Israeli inhabitants of towns like Sderot who are subject to the
homemade, sugar-fueled rockets that wobble their way from Gaza and which
generally land harmlessly far and wide of their targets.

But my point is not to make judgements on the relative value of the
lives of Palestinian or Israeli civilians (even if the difference in
levels of suffering and death is clear). My point is that the Israeli government is to blame for ALL such deaths and suffering.

The truth is that the latest round of violence (like so many previous
round of violence) was clearly and deliberately provoked by the Israeli
government and military.

Manufacturing Terrorism

The Western media would have us believe that Israeli attacks on Gaza are
always in retaliation to Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. This is
not true, and it is not true of the latest violence. The firing of
rockets from Palestine into Israel usually only occur in response to Israeli aggression.

"Militants in Gaza have fired 26 rockets into Israel, officials say,
amid a flare-up in fighting which shattered a brief ceasefire between
the two sides. No injuries were reported from the barrage, in the south
of the country." The BBC said that, "It came hours after Israeli aircraft hit targets in Gaza, after militants fired rockets following the killing by Israel of a Gazan who Israel said fired mortars at its troops."

On November 4th, Israeli forces shot dead "an unarmed, mentally disabled man"
who made the mistake of walking too close to an Israeli-imposed
"buffer" area inside the occupied Gaza Strip. So the Israelis shot dead a
mentally retarded man because he was walking inside the open air prison that the Israelis have allowed the Palestinians to call home.

On November 8th, the Israeli military invaded the Gaza Strip near al-Qarara villlage northeast of Khan Yunis and fatally injured a child. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR):

"They leveled areas of Palestinian land amidst indiscriminate shooting.
A few hours later, they moved southwards to 'Abassan village. They
opened fire indiscriminately and leveled areas of Palestinian land. An
Israeli helicopter gunship also opened fire at the area. At
approximately 16:30, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF
[Israeli occupation forces] military vehicles, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis
Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At
the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his
friends in front of his family's house, located nearly 1,500 meters away
from the area where the IOF were present."

Ahmed subsequently died of his injuries.

In response, on November 10th, Palestinian resistance fighters attacked an Israeli army jeep near the boundary with Gaza, injuring 4 Israeli soldiers and fired several rockets into Israel.

Following this, Israel attacked civilian neighborhoods in Gaza. In the ensuing 72 hour period, Israeli forced killed 7 Palestinians. According to PCHR, five of the dead were civilians, including 3 children. Fifty-two others, including 6 women and 12 children were wounded.

"Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja'iya neighborhood east of Gaza City," PCHR reported.

"After five days of mounting violence, Israel and the Palestinians
stepped back from the brink of a new war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday,
sending signals to each other via Egypt that they would hold their fire
unless attacked."

The report added:

Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Gaza's Hamas government, praised the
main armed factions in the enclave for agreeing on Monday night to a
truce. "They showed a high sense of responsibility by saying they would
respect calm should the Israeli occupation also abide by it," he said.

Then, yesterday, Israel summarily executed Hamas military chief Ahmad al-Jabari. Reuters noted that the Israeli attack "appeared to end a 24-hour lull in cross-border violence that surged this week."

The Israeli government has a LONG history of deliberately breaking
cease-fires with Palestinians in order to provoke Palestinian response
and then justify Israeli mass murder of Palestinians.

I noted above that the firing of rockets from Palestine into Israel
usually only occurs in response to Israeli aggression. Now and again,
rockets are fired from Palestine and no one seems to know who was
responsible.

The Hamas rulers of Gaza Strip on Tuesday lashed out at gunners
who fire rockets at Israel from the Palestinian territory in violation
of a seven-week-old calm, calling them Israeli collaborators. "About the rocket-firing, I think those
who are responsible are those who collaborate with Israel because there
is a consensus by all Palestinian groups to respect the truce," said Dr. Mahmud Zahar, a senior leader of the Hamas movement.

On Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an empty field
outside the southern Israeli city of Sderot, causing no casualty or
damage.

According to AFP, Zahar told a Gaza radio station that the party
which fired the rocket was "linked to Israel as they provide a pretext
to exercise pressure on the Palestinian people."

There has been general confusion in the Palestinian Authority after a Qassam rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip
into the western Negev. One of the cells of the al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades, Fatah's military arm, has taken responsibility for the firing.

However, Abu Ahmad, one of the group's senior officials in the northern Gaza Strip, said to Ynet that he had no knowledge that his people carried out the shooting.

"As of now, we continue to be committed to the truce, but are reserving
our right to respond to Israeli infractions," said Abu Ahmad.

Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of
Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday.

The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.

"The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the Palestinian territories," said the official, on condition of anonymity.

He said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the
Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide [Israel
with] reasons to carry out a new [military] aggression in the Gaza
Strip."

Sixty some years ago very similar scenes to those Palestine and Gaza
over the past ten years were playing out in Germany and Poland, and the
then Nazi government urged Western citizens to accept it all as
necessary and justified. Many people then accepted and condoned the Nazi
atrocities, and many more turned a blind eye.

The Nazis 1942 war on Poland's "terrorists"

Israel's ongoing war on Palestine's "terrorists"

You are probably bored of being reminded that 'those that do not learn
from history are doomed to repeat it', or that history really does
repeat itself. But you should remember that history only repeats itself
when the people of this world sit back and wishfully think that this
time things will be different. The Nazis massacred millions of people
over a twelve-year period from 1933 to 1945. WWII (which claimed the
lives of 65 million people) was ignited by an act of brutality very
similar in nature to the Israeli actions in Palestine.

The ideological descendants of the bankers, political leaders,
military men and global geopolitical strategists that financed, pursued
and profited from that last "great" war are today sitting in Tel Aviv,
Washington and London with mass murder and mayhem once again on their
minds. So let us not allow history to repeat itself, yet again,
by permitting the clearly psychopathic morality of our political
leaders to be passed off as "freedom and democracy" or a "just fight"
against some manufactured foe. Let us, if only with our collective
conscious awareness, resist the blatant crimes against humanity and
massacring of the innocent that is taking place in Gaza. And let us
remember the core issue and injustice that must be addressed before
Israel's right to exist can ever be recognized:

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